Education Courses for Individuals

Identify the concepts of sterile technique and their application to clinical perioperative practice.

Learn how to apply principles of safety when using a variety of equipment in the surgical suite.

Understand professionalism, accountability, ethical behavior, and legal and risk management topics.

Understand the scope of perianesthesia nursing and the skill sets needed to perform this role.

Learn how to safely position patients for an invasive or noninvasive procedure.

Learn evidence-based practices for skin preps; types of prepping agents; prepping procedures; and documentation for common types of surgery.

Learn how to apply safety principles specific to care of patient in the surgical suite.

Learn specific behaviors to participate in patient and family educational activities.

Introduces the perioperative registered nurse (RN) to the elements of a culture of safety and the effect of human factors on delivery of care.

Learn how to prepare for, recognize, and treat various obstetric emergencies that may arise during pregnancy.

Understand safe and accurate administration and documentation of intraoperative medications and solutions.

Learn to use the nursing process in documenting safe and effective patient care in the perioperative setting.

Learn about various methods of hemostasis, the use of sponges and drains, and ways to prevent retained surgical items (RSIs).

Not everyone in the operating room is a nurse or a surgeon. This course is primarily intended to educate clinical team members, who are not RNs, about safe surgical practices.

At this live webinar you’ll gain the necessary knowledge to implement and fine tune an efficient robotic surgery program in the acute care setting. You’ll hear about best practices to achieve programmatic alignment, what staffing considerations you should make, and how to implement recruitment and retention ideas tailored to the unique demands of the program.

Learn how to manage the logistics of block scheduling and how to maintain efficient workflows for robotic surgeries by leveraging data and best scheduling practices. You’ll gain valuable tips for making strategic decisions around block release and using open time, with the end goal of reaching your program’s peak potential.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional should know prior to being assigned to a total shoulder arthroplasty procedure.

What does it take to minimize turnover times and maximize caseload efficiency in bariatric surgical cases using flip rooms? At this live webinar you’ll gain strategies and insights that include: staffing considerations, collaboration between pre-op and PACU teams, and innovative scheduling practices that foster workflow efficiencies.

The goal of this course is to familiarize nurses and other health care personnel with the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), a standardized nursing language that will support evidence-based perioperative nursing practice.

AORN now offers an Adult Medication Safety Assessment that can be used as an on-boarding tool to establish a baseline level of knowledge on medications and also knowledge of Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices.